OnLive Cloud-Based Gaming Service Coming to Google TV

OnLive is a cloud based gaming service that was just launched about a month ago, and is already starting to take off. The concept is that games are streamed in real-time from servers instead of running directly on your hardware. This makes the games hardware independent, thus able to be run on any mobile streaming device, so you could be gaming on a tablet, while your buddy is playing with you on his smartphone or other device. From this new announcement it looks as if the "other device" will be a Google TV, as it was just announced that the OnLive gaming app is being developed for the Google TV. Here's a quote from SlashGear with some more details,

The app will use the Universal OnLive Wireless Controller announced last week, hooking up to the TV or Google TV STB directly. The first 30 minutes of most of OnLives 200 games will apparently be free to try, with per-title purchases supported after that; alternatively, therell be the subscription-based OnLive PlayPack Bundle for unlimited access to more than 140 of the cloud-based games.

Vizio will be showing off a playable version of OnLive on Google TV as part of its V.I.A. Plus smart TV system at CES 2012 this week, and you can bet well be headed over to see if we can take part in some cloud gaming fun today. The app is expected to be preloaded onto future Google TV sets and adapters.

Basically at the moment it looks like the onlive software for google tv is not fully ready and that is why it is being called an onlive viewer since all it does is allow you to watch others live games. Hopefully this will change in the future or the guy in the video did not try all the available games to see if one worked.

Basically at the moment it looks like the onlive software for google tv is not fully ready and that is why it is being called an onlive viewer since all it does is allow you to watch others live games. Hopefully this will change in the future or the guy in the video did not try all the available games to see if one worked.

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Yeah, this is actually normal. OnLive launches their viewer application before the full fledged client. If you check the Android Market there are two separate apps available; the viewer (OnLive Viewer) and the full fledge client (Onlive). Only the viewer is currently compatible with Google TV. Same thing happened last year with both Android and iOS phones and tablets. It recently came out last month for the Android Phone and Tablets but I'm still waiting for the full-fledged client for my iOS devices.